April 7, 2011
Dems Punt on Taxes
Balancing the federal budget (or at least making the unbalanced budget look more respectable) usually requires two kinds of actions from policy makers: cutting spending and raising revenue. Republicans like to focus on cutting spending. Their political philosophy includes an...
April 6, 2011
Act Like a Grown-Up
Yesterday, President Obama said that Congressional leaders should act like “grown-ups.” Good advice. I wish he would follow it. According to the dictionary definition, a grown-up is a “a fully developed person from maturity onward.” I assume that all the...
April 5, 2011
Delete the Email
President Obama emailed his supporters that he is running for re-election. I guess he did that as a way to tell young voters (who largely powered his initial election campaign) that he is still with them. Young voters ought to...
April 4, 2011
Expiration Date
As anybody who ever watched Schoolhouse Rock in the 1970’s knows (“I am just a bill, I am only a bill and I am sitting here on Capitol Hill, but I hope to be a law one day, oh, yes...
April 1, 2011
The 10-Year Number
It is easy to be fairly nonchalant about the current budget battle that has consumed the Congress. Pundits (myself included) have pointed out that the tens of billions of dollars being discussed is chump change, especially if you consider the...
March 31, 2011
Opening Day
The Washington Nationals open their baseball season today against the Atlanta Braves, which got me thinking about the connections between baseball and Congress. Baseball is usually associated with the White House, because of the history of President’s throwing out the...